Bubo bubo & Buteo buteo (1 Viewer)

Hello world !

We know that the Eurasian Eagle Owl (Bubo bubo) is a super predator reigning on the top of the food chain with no serious enemies as adults, feeding on hundreds of different species, including other birds of prey. Among them, there is the Common Buzzard (Buteo buteo).

The questions are, was an Eagle Owl attacking a Common Buzzard ever filmed or photographed ? And was a Common Buzzard chasing an Eagle Owl ever filmed or photographed ? If so, please link to the document (photo, film, author, article).

Could you provide the names of top leading scientists studying the Eagle Owl, not about genetics, physiology, etc., but about ethology or ecology. This would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

Pithecophaga said:

Hello world !

We know that the Eurasian Eagle Owl (Bubo bubo) is a super predator reigning on the top of the food chain with no serious enemies as adults, feeding on hundreds of different species, including other birds of prey. Among them, there is the Common Buzzard (Buteo buteo).

The questions are, was an Eagle Owl attacking a Common Buzzard ever filmed or photographed ? And was a Common Buzzard chasing an Eagle Owl ever filmed or photographed ? If so, please link to the document (photo, film, author, article).

Could you provide the names of top leading scientists studying the Eagle Owl, not about genetics, physiology, etc., but about ethology or ecology. This would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

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There are videos of Great Horned Owls, a close relative, attacking osprey nests and bald eagle nests. I am sure the same exist for eagle owl, which is even larger. If an owl attacks a buzzard, it would be certainly at night. That's when most attacks happen- if it attacked a peregrine in the day, which it does at night, ti wouldn't stand a chance if the peregrine stooped on it.
I'm not sure about all of that, but I believe there is hard evidence that in Russia the main reason for eagle owl decline in a certain region near Baikal was because at night they attacked golden eagle nests and got killed as a result.
Eagle owls are super-predators, but if they wake up and are attacked by something huge like a golden, white-tailed or steller's sea eagle, they would not survive that encounter. After all, there is a reason why bears usually destroy steller's sea eagle nests on sight!
Footage of those encounters is really rare. But there is something similar:
https://laughingsquid.com/snowy-owl-vs-peregrine-falcon/
And, in addition, there is this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v45rTayXtzk
Don't really know about the other questions

Yes, there are - here a Bubo bubo raiding a Buteo rufinus (larger than Buteo buteo!) nest at night in Israel:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7KXvs7WJWM

Maybe try and make contact with the authors of this book?

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Eagle-Owl-...l,+penter&qid=1581148623&s=books&sr=1-1-fkmr0